Summary: Ticking away inside the human body are the timepieces that govern our daily and seasonal lives. This program shows how these biological clocks dictate physiological behavior—determining when our brains are most alert, when our stomachs are ready to break down food, and when our bodies want to sleep. Viewers learn why most babies are born in the early morning, why most teenagers want to sleep...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Diaz, Cameron
Summary: The Hollywood star shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 DIASummary: The delicate interplay of hormones is responsible for all the events of reproduction. How many other body processes are controlled and coordinated by these chemical messengers becomes apparent in this program, which follows the role hormones play in response to a sudden emergency: the 'fight or flight' reaction.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Despite the swelling ranks of the overweight, a significant portion of the population seems immune to obesity. Do some people have a natural ability to maintain a thin physique, no matter how much they eat or how little they exercise? This program explores the phenomenon of effortless slimness and its biological causes. Based on a 1967 experiment involving Vermont State Prison inmates, ten...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program provides a thorough introduction to the structure and functions of the digestive tract. Using modern body-imaging techniques, the program explores where fat is located and how its distribution within the body differs from person to person. The program also explains how dietary fat is digested and assimilated by the body, how food becomes body fat, and how our lifestyles dictate...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: What happens when asthma goes undetected until adulthood? This program features four individuals (including the film’s director) who have suffered from the condition for decades but have only recently realized that it is the source of their health problems. Each describes for the camera how they are coming to terms with asthma’s impact on their lives - from the constant battle for breath...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: As the human body transitions into the teen years, it grows stronger and more resilient than ever, with an immune system nearing full strength. This program reveals the teen body's newfound power and independence, which, unfortunately for many teens, means more dangerous behavior. Rushed to the emergency room with stab wounds to his chest, 17-year-old Mohammed needs a lung drain to help him...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: When it comes to the heart, every condition is serious. Fortunately, MVP is one of the lesser problems. Approximately 60 percent of patients have no symptoms and require no treatment at all. Mild symptoms are often managed with medication or lifestyle change, and even the serious cases can be safely treated through surgery. This program provides a thorough overview of the disorder, with an...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: 1.Colon Cancer: Could something as simple as aspirin prevent this deadly disease? Possibly, but researchers are also honing in on colon cancer’s genetic causes, using one of the best DNA databases in the world—Utah’s Mormon population. 2.Cancer: Compiling the Catalog: In this report, researchers at the University of Michigan are assembling an encyclopedia of cancer genes which will help...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this program, world-renowned anatomist Gunther von Hagens takes viewers into the inner workings of the respiratory and circulatory systems-exposing the path that oxygen takes through the human body. Von Hagens dissects lung tissue to reveal alveoli, delves into the atria and ventricles of the heart, and examines the intricate network of blood vessels that spreads through the abdomen, limbs,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program explains why the body needs regular supplies of air and how it gets them. The camera follows the process of breathing through the ultra-thin membrane of the lung into the blood, showing how the varying demand for oxygen is met by the exchange of information between the brain and the chest muscles and how the body rids itself of carbon dioxide.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program covers the circulatory system's important roles in transportation, purification, and regulation. Topics include the structure and function of the heart; the role of blood as a connective tissue; arteries, veins, and the flow of blood; the functions of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma; the lymphatic system; and maintaining a healthy circulatory system.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program describes the structure and functioning of the heart. It analyzes the three basic components of the heart-muscle, valves, and pacemaker-and shows how each one contributes to the proper functioning of the organ as a whole.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program takes a close look at the organs of the human circulatory system and how they work to sustain life. After an introductory overview, the composition of blood-its plasma, erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets-is analyzed, blood types and Rh factor are considered, the role of hemoglobin in transporting oxygen is explained, and the anatomy and function of the heart is examined....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The health hazards of cigarettes were scientifically established by the 1930s. What kept those findings under wraps for so long? This program explores the history of medical research into smoking and the sustained efforts of tobacco companies to block public scrutiny of their deadly product. Renowned anti-smoking activists-including Dr. Stanton Glanz of the University of California San...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program examines the chemical structure of food and the human body's ability to convert food into fuel and raw materials. Major and minor nutrients are defined, catabolism and anabolism are contrasted, and the function of the digestive tract at the cellular level is scrutinized. The sequence of physical and chemical processes that facilitate digestion is also illustrated, spotlighting each...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This edition of Science Screen Report illustrates how the human immune system protects against the pathogens humans encounter on a daily basis. It explains the function of first-line defenses and white blood cells, the distinction between viruses and bacteria, and the different functions of vaccines and penicillin. It also shows what happens when the immune system falters or fails, and how...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program deals with events when the entire body is under attack-when bacteria or viruses invade the whole system. It shows the roles of the spleen, the lymphatic system, and the white blood cells, and explains the body's production of antibodies. With the common cold as the main example, it demonstrates the sequence from viral attack to recovery.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program investigates how the body controls its internal environment. The steady state of the Earth's biosphere is compared to that of the human body. An automated greenhouse and a computerized inventory system demonstrate how negative feedback loops use detection and response to maintain their own balanced states. The regulation of body temperature in response to extreme heat and cold is...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: 1.In the Blood: In this report, doctors attempt to use a leukemia patient’s own bone marrow as a source of life-saving stem cells. 2.Sickle Cell Anemia: The most common genetic disease in America is also one of the most painful and debilitating. But an experiment on mice has raised hopes with an anti-sickling gene therapy. 3.Using a Killer to Cure: This segment highlights work at MIT and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program tells the stories of four individuals whose immune systems failed to function properly: a toddler born without an immune system who received a bone marrow transplant at six weeks, has survived minor illnesses and infections, and faces a healthy future; a man who developed B-cell lymphoma (cancer of the immune system), was treated with a new product, and 11 years later is cancer...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The body is like a self-supporting hospital, able to deal on its own with wounds, bacterial invasions, fractures, and obstructions to its various passages. This program follows the sequence of events over seconds and weeks when skin or bone is damaged and shows the defensive reactions of blood clotting, fever, and mending of bone fracture.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: At about 20 years of age, the body's defenses reach their peak strength-but danger can still strike even the most robust system. This program reinforces that unfortunate irony, exploring medical challenges and complications occurring in otherwise healthy young adults. Hit by a speeding car, Rubinda receives almost immediate help-from medics and from her own body's defenses. Charlotte has a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Following an opening segment on the importance of oxygen to the human body, this program studies the structure and function of the respiratory system. Topics include the anatomy of the upper respiratory tract, the lower respiratory tract, and the alveoli; the diffusion of gas molecules through the walls of the alveoli and capillaries, and the effect of high altitude on the diffusion process;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009